For @grollow’s Latest W&G Chapter, This Very Quick Sketch Of Two Old Men Being Right And Wrong And

In honor of finally making @ashyronfire the grimmcut for IBIMM they petitioned for back in September, have the art I tried to make for the nightgown king himself

You would, @grollow​. You would.

My Sad Bois

(Snippet note: The problem is that all but one of my hollow knight fics just goes into this as their master doc because I am too lazy to make multiple docs, so. Alas. Deprived of file names for the bugs for...10 wips, oneshot and multichap.)

Babe and the +1

Hi bird brain, why am I being held hostage

rip rewind

sad naughty spider dads

whoever wants to do this, have funnnn, wip file names always give life

@basilbellona​ @rainbow-scarab​ share if you are comfortable!

Tagged by @sydmarch

RULES: post the names of the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

-bark bark

-whatcha wearin

-OUR milk

-copoverse

Tagging @proteus-no and @saturno-sol

Happy fic completion, @dropout-ninja !!! Chains (found on AO3) is such a comforting read, despite all the angst. Or, especially because of it and the healing involved! And it does such a fantastic job of exploring all the implications of THK's imprisonment and upbringing, who is such a lovely, determined focal character to root for. I cannot recommend this fic enough to Hollow Knight enjoyers.

You thought it would be IBIMM I asked about, or the star, but it is not. No, I need to know what was going through your headspace with Chains' journal entries. You see, they are my actual favorite part of Chains, because I struggle to write journal entries and make them feel like journal entries. But this one:

‘Entry 47

This is a small lie: I do not mind the pushing of the Teacher’s assistant because I understand it.

This is perhaps a little bigger than a small lie.

I can not understand it. He thinks I have begun to. I lie. […] ’

From Chapter 23 (24 on ao3) plays in my head often. I do not think you know how much this fucked me up when I read it because we weren't talking about it, but I've never forgotten it and I've wanted to do a diary-style fic for AGES because of this. Help me. Tell me how you made this so damn good. (The whole entry, I just didn't wanna quote the whole thing back at you when its a little on the long side.)

I have a feeling a lot of my director’s cut reveals would just be me shrugging and saying idk where x came from??

Because I think that’s. That’s just the majority of my writing. And in terms of coming across the idea of journal entries, I honestly have no clue what spawned that

But the journal entries were one of the few random things I wrote down before even starting on outlining or chapter 1, along with some other random scenes/sentences/dialogue (THK’s scene with the Troupe Master when he’s leaving for the first time, the first White Lady scene, things like that). I think there were actually a few og journals that the fic wove off of that ended up being changed/deleted. I knew Myla’s song would get to be an entry, the entry you mentioned up there was written pretty early on, basically I knew that I wanted to have the entries show their writing style and discomfort in calling themself an ‘I’ and how that evolved and progressed over the story. The entries and gender subplot were basically the backbones that the rest of Chains spawned on. So fun fact! We wouldn’t have it if not for the journal entries subplot. Even if THK was screaming over their ‘homework’ for a good half of the fic

(As a side note, about by the 20s of chapters, a friend had convinced me to use the sort-of maybe-PK arc from the end and I had the image of them just dumping giant stacks of journals in front of him to go “read”, and so I kept that in mind for all the entries that got to take place for the next 40ish chapters)

Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut

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Since I was told once again that I don’t share enough shitposts…

…what? If they’re gonna be siblings, then let her poof out too.

More fanart for @grollow/@ashyronfire’s Red Sky

My Bloodborne experience so far

Can't have shit with inflation in this economy

I crave Hollow and White Lady interactions and @dropout-ninja 's Take Two absolutely delivers as always, this scene in particular stuck to my brain like bubblegum

Totally definitely very accurate sneak peek at the upcoming Take Two arc.